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My current solution for this is to just tag `site:reddit.com` to the beginning of Google searches. A Google search for `site:reddit.com best miter saw` has a lo

• abakker 5y ago
  Of course! this is a tip I got from HN years ago. it gets old to add Reddit, PracticalMachinist, Fine Woodworking, etc. I really want a proxy for user generated content where nobody got paid to write it. Fun story: I knew a person who worked for a home building website part time. She got paid to write stories on home renovations. She had never done _anything_ she wrote about. Mostly, she gathered up other blogspam and recycled and rewrote it without citation. Sometimes she went to forums, sometimes reddit, sometimes youtube. But, the universal part of it was that she had to produce 2x pieces of content per week endlessly. Just for a local LA builder. Most of the content wasn't "wrong" but, it also wasn't exactly incisive and didn't include any details that would have been useful. Instead it was just filler. The worst part is that it consistently improved that company's search ranking. Content farming needs to die.